“Within 12 short months, the clueless baby-dangler, the addled Peter Pan who bunked with little Johns and Michaels, the frightening and wasted Dorian Gray alien who cut himself up and cut himself off has evaporated from boldface memory and well-nigh vanished from the entertainment planet. Certainly, the postmortem process of editing out the bad parts is one we have seen before, but this latest example has been a model of mercantile efficiency.”